Trinity

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty. And to impress him, he...
A Different Kind of Inheritance

A Different Kind of Inheritance

In July 1945, the Trinity test confirmed what theory had long posited: the energy bound in the nucleus of an atom could be released, rapidly and violently, by human design. J. Robert Oppenheimer stood at the edge of the test site and understood what had changed. Not...